November 8th through December 2nd. Reception on November 8 from 6:30-8pm both virtual and in-person.
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The JKC Gallery is excited to announce our next show in the gallery will be by Phillip McConnell, an artist and writer who mixes analog photography with digital processes to create work that reflects on the human condition and Phillips own personal experiences.
Phillip McConnell thinks of his images as a kind of digital alchemy which connects his work to the earliest forms of photography where it was believed that photography had a kind of magical and transformative power. But Phillip’s work does not reside in the idealism of early photography influenced by impressionism and surrealism. His modern version of these ideas are expressions of his life and his experiences. Within his montages are hints at his thoughts about race, class, and the many disruptions that can bring chaos into our lives. Visually, Phillip’s work can seem jarring and abstract with its contrasting colors and dense overlays, but with some time and immersion in front of these pieces, the glitches and the imagery take on a new unifying quality that allows the viewer to enter these transformational landscapes and contemplate their meaning.
From the Artist:
This project is titled: Analog Surrealism. It is a juxtaposition series where I merge different surrealistic concepts of glitch art with aspects of analog photography. Glitch art is the anesthetization of digital or analog errors, such as artifacts and other “bugs.” I create this art by either corrupting digital code/data or by physically manipulating electronic devices. Analog photography is any type of photography not taken through a digital medium. Think of a roll of film being analog and SD card being digital. Recent years have seen the trend of digital photography engulf this discipline, making analog photography a lost art. The concept of new ideas replacing the old is something that other artists have sought to embody. My objective is to use an old way of creating art and mix it with my own unique style.
To create my work, I convert picture files into text files using a basic program called Notepad ++. Using the text file within the program I manually manipulate the data of the picture by adding or subtracting color codes and by taking pieces of other pictures and blending them with each other. Once I have distorted an image enough, I combine them using the notepad program and export the text file as a JPG picture file and print it on galley wrapped canvas.
https://www.phillipmcconnellart.com
Phillip McConnell is an artist from Trenton, New Jersey. His art focuses abstract, surrealist digital artwork called Glitch Art. Glitch Art is the aesthetic of digital errors, created by corrupting the data of pictures. Phillip uses varying techniques and different coding languages. Within his work he discusses personal experiences and his overall world view.
